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More Cuts To Come For Health
Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Health New Zealand, which runs our hospitals and other healthcare services, was already $1.1 billion in the red. Funds needed to assist services to deal with a growing population and inflation are instead servicing the deficit. More >>
Govt Guts Emergency Housing While Need Increases
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government promised New Zealanders that those in genuine need would get access to emergency housing but the Budget shows they simply have no intention of providing it, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. More >>
$1 Billion Of Māori Funding Gone
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Over the two budgets, Tama Potaka has now slashed more than $1 billion of Māori specific funding and that is shameful. The biggest hit is in Māori housing. Whai Kainga Whai Oranga and the whole Māori housing programme has been scrapped, Māori ... More >>
The Austerity Budget That Leaves Women Out
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“Christopher Luxon’s decision to cut the Government KiwiSaver contribution will steal $66,000 from the retirement savings of an 18-year-old entering the scheme today." More >>
Bills Increase Transparency Of Money Transfers And Ports
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“Too many families are losing money to hidden fees when they send remittances overseas. That’s not fair, especially with the cost of living rising,” Arena Williams said. More >>
Half A Billion Dollar Tax Break For Tech Giants
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 2:40 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Nicola Willis promised Kiwi families $250 a fortnight, but she can’t find a single family who got it. More than a quarter of their FamilyBoost scheme, about $14 million, has been eaten up in bureaucracy instead of going to families as promised. More >>
Govt Helps Banks Dodge Repayment Claims For Kiwis
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 10:37 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“As Kiwis continue to feel the squeeze of the high cost of living, this Government is choosing to deny tens of thousands of New Zealanders who may be owed money the right to make a claim in court,” Labour commerce and consumer affairs spokesperson ... More >>
Search Begins For Rare Family Receiving $250
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 12:56 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“It’s time Nicola Willis got her binoculars out to begin the search for a family that has received her promised cost of living relief,” Labour finance and economy spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. More >>
Govt Risks Hospice Care By Cutting Women’s Pay
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 11:37 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Hospice nurses were just weeks away from having their years-long pay equity claim settled when the Government cruelly cut women’s pay equity for their Budget, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. More >>
Govt Leaves Sexual Abuse Survivors Out In The Cold
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 7:22 am | New Zealand Labour Party
People who have suffered severe trauma because of sexual abuse will not have access to mental health or loss of income support under the Minister’s proposal. More >>
More Sunlight Needed On School Lunches
Monday, 19 May 2025, 12:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“David Seymour promised all would be fixed by the start of term two, and for our children’s sake we want to ensure he doesn’t break this promise,” Willow-Jean Prime said. More >>
Women In Funded Sector Unlikely To Get Pay Equity
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 10:55 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“What this could mean is that women in this sector, whose claims have now been extinguished by the law passed two weeks ago, will no longer have a pathway to pay equity,” Labour workplace relations and safety spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. More >>
Chris Hipkins: Auckland Regional Conference Speech
Saturday, 17 May 2025, 2:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealanders were promised stability, leadership, and solutions. What they’ve had instead is broken promises, bad choices, division, and dysfunction. More >>
Minister’s Rash Orders Fail Frontline Providers
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
With reports of vulnerable children almost doubling in the past year, Karen Chhour must act urgently. More >>
Prices Keep Rising While National Cuts Women’s Pay
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Paying for the weekly shop keeps getting harder. The Government promised to bring prices down, but the only thing they’re bringing down is women’s pay, Labour finance and economy spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. More >>
Govt Finally Admits 180,000 In Line For A Pay Cut
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 12:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“Across the country thousands of women are making their voices heard and Labour proudly stands with them. We will restore women’s fundamental rights to equal pay for equal work,” Jan Tinetti said. More >>
Admin Nearly A Quarter Of Entire FamilyBoost Spend
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 8:18 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“Of the 130,000 families she claimed would receive some support, a figure she revised to 100,000 upon coming into Government, only half are getting any money at all. Now we find out that nearly a quarter of the cost of the scheme is being spent administering ... More >>
Budget Should Not Be Paid For By Working Women
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8:03 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis say there is no alternative. But there is always an alternative – choosing billions in tax breaks for landlords and tobacco companies are not the choices Labour would have made,” Labour Leader Chris Hipkins ... More >>
National Asks Teachers To Do More With Less Pay
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“The many women marching across the country last week didn’t need a tutor to figure out how much less they are paid than men in similar work,” Labour education spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime said. More >>
Peeni Henare Takes Over Foreign Affairs
Monday, 12 May 2025, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Lawyer and human rights advocate Vanushi Walters returns to Parliament this week and will pick up shadow Attorney-General and associate foreign affairs. More >>
